Alanna Martinez
WHAT: “Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848 – 1900”WHEN: February 17 – May 19WHERE: The National Gallery of Art, 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.WHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: The National Gallery of Art is currently showing the...
WHAT: “Art in the Street: European Posters”WHEN: December 15, 2012 – July 21, 2013WHERE: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington AvenueWHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s “Art in the Street:...
WHAT: “Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints”’WHEN: March 9 – June 9, 2013WHERE: Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, New YorkWHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, with their boldly colored, minimal perspective-shifting portrayals of 15th...
The New Museum’s “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and More Star” conjures the strongest and most uncomfortable feelings of nostalgia I’ve felt in years – which is the whole point. The star-packed, vintage hodgepodge of political...
WHAT: “Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s”WHEN: February 23 – April 7, 2013WHERE: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 Seventeenth Street NW, Washington, D.C.WHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: While rap and hip-hop culture were gaining speed in 1980s...
It’s been a busy few years for Iraq-born, New York-based painter Ahmed Alsoudani. In 2011 he was thrust into the international spotlight when he represented Iraq at the Venice Biennale, and in 2012 had solo exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum...
WHAT: “Yoko Ono: Half-A-Wind, A Retrospective”WHEN: February 15 – May 12WHERE: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Römerberg D-60311, Frankfurt, GermanyWHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: The Japanese performance artist/musician/peace activist Yoko Ono celebrated her 80th...
EMERGING is a regular column where ARTINFO spotlights an up-and-coming artist.Portland-based artist Adam Friedman’s new solo show at Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco, titled “Space and Time, and Other Mysterious Aggregations,” is a trippy walk-through...
This year, for Valentine's Day, we got you this article-shaped box of delicious chocolate artworks. Some of them are sweet, others tend toward the bitter end of the flavor spectrum, a few are very dark, and one is white, but all of them have a distinct taste...
WHAT: Joan Semmel, “A Lucid Eye”WHEN: January 24 – June 9WHERE: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New YorkWHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: Joan Semmel’s influential career has traversed the subjects of eroticism, traditions in painting, the...
